Media Player taking over

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Why oh, why does WMP feel it is in my best interest to go
moving my audio files around?
i have told it to retrieve cd info from the net and it
decided to move all my music (around 4,000 files) to
their artist\album directories rather than the directory
that i had placed them in.
what i would like to know is: Is there any way, short of
recoding to have media player find info for my new albums
whilst not messing with my current collection?

All sensible replies welcome.
failing sensble, all replies.
Aki.

Ps- Microsoft PLEASE if you decide to make a WMP 10
series make sure that it has an option to sort this out,
it really wouldn't take much, i'm sure.
 
Why oh, why does WMP feel it is in my best interest to go
moving my audio files around?
i have told it to retrieve cd info from the net and it
decided to move all my music (around 4,000 files) to
their artist\album directories rather than the directory
that i had placed them in.
what i would like to know is: Is there any way, short of
recoding to have media player find info for my new albums
whilst not messing with my current collection?

All sensible replies welcome.
failing sensble, all replies.
Aki.

Ps- Microsoft PLEASE if you decide to make a WMP 10
series make sure that it has an option to sort this out,
it really wouldn't take much, i'm sure.
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RealOne Player has the same option, and AFAIK, there is no way to undo it.
Perhaps a system restore would do it.
 
Go to WMP's Tools:Options:Media Library menu option.
Uncheck "Rename and Rearrange music using media information".
Voila. :)

I believe this defaults to Off, but don't recall for sure.

-Zach
--
(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
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Okay, i'll be a bit more precise with this one,
the "rearrange my music files" option is already off.
media player still takes it upon itself to move stuff
round. I'm thinkin Linux.
Aki
 
Are you reripping your CDs? This is on the things to thing about list for
next version, but if WMP sees that there is already a track it recorded on
the disk when it rerecords, it figures you're trying to replace that. So
you'll replace your old file with the new ripped one in the standard
ripped-to location.

If that's not it, I've got other ways to debug it, but that's the biggest
bugaboo I know of.

Whatever makes you happy, really.

-Zach
--
(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
Following up to your post with the resolution is good netiquette.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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Yes, i am currently re-ripping my cds as previously all
my mp3s were at aa low bit-rate
 
Sweet. Well, I'm glad that was easy to figure out.

This is a product design ... flaw. I hesitate to call it that, because to
most people it's useful, but to you, it's not, and thus to you it's a flaw,
so we'll run with that.

To my knowledge, WMP will only rename files that are under it's Copy To
directory (set under WMP's Tools:Options:Copy Music). So you could have
c:\music
and
c:\music\WMP-root
(the latter as your Copy To directory) and that should fix things up - you'd
move things out of WMP-root and back into the normal root when you were done
ripping them.

I don't *believe* that WMP will rename the files if they're out of it's root
directory. If it does, in the worst case scenario, you can use:
c:\music
and
c:\wmp-root
and just make c:\music read-only when ripping stuff again. :\ But I don't
think that's necessary.

-Zach
--
(speaking for myself and doing this in my free time)
See http://www.nwlink.com/~zachd/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
Following up to your post with the resolution is good netiquette.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
All e-mail to this account will bounce or be deleted - *use the newsgroups*.
 
Okay, thanks for the help with the take over problems,
now i have another problem, whenever i try to play "Disc
One" by BNL media player crashes, I have this problem on
my PC & Laptop, but, when is use a third party piece of
software there is no such problem, the disc isn't
scratched, it is as new, so i cant see any reason why
media player should refuse to play it. I also have this
problem with several of my newer DVDS, oh and a reinstall
doesnt work - I tried it.
 
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